Arrow Season 4: 12 Questions We're Asking After 'Lost Souls'

3. How Can Oliver Defeat Darhk?

Only six episodes into the new season, and we've already had Oliver go up against his new nemesis on two occasions. I thought The Flash was wasting little time with the introduction of Zoom, but they've taken it incredibly (and ironically) slow compared to their big brother. I could go on and on writing about how great Neal McDonough is as Damien Darhk, and just how menacing and captivating he is, but it's really all there to see on-screen, and nowhere is it more evident than in his fight scene with the Green Arrow. Once again, our hero comes out second best, with Darhk displaying just how easily he can stop the arrows, and then magically making the chains that had been holding Oliver wrap around his throat. He does manage to escape, thanks to a little magic of his own (maybe? Or was it just some sort of mini-explosive?), but it's a narrow one, and you also get the feeling that Darhk hasn't even started trying. Just how you can beat him looks like being a difficult question to answer at the moment.
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